In John Vlastelica’s 2025 LinkedIn Talent Connect TA leadership workshops, John shared best practices for helping leaders improve quality of hire. As recruiter roles evolve and AI introduces new potential risks, the demand for quality over quantity is rising. In this interactive session, we workshopped leadership-level strategies to define “what good looks like,” reduce fraud risk, enable hiring managers, and elevate recruiter impact at the assessment and decision stage.

This session really resonated with the 250 senior TA leaders who attended - these workshops, at my 11th year presenting, received a top 5 rating at the conference, earning an 83 NPS rating, a 90% confidence rating, and a 102% attendance (every seat was filled!).  

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RESOURCES

Topic Article Link
AI Why You Need a Company-Wide Point of View on Candidate Cheating https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/why-you-need-company-wide-pov-on-candidate-cheating
AI Will AI Replace Junior Roles? https://transform.us/articles/ai-impact-hiring-junior-roles/
AI What Talent Leaders Need to Know — and Do — About the Upsurge in Candidate Cheating https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/what-talent-leaders-need-to-know-about-candidate-cheating
AI Will AI Usher in An Era of Inefficiency in Recruiting? https://blog.recruitingtoolbox.com/blog/will-ai-usher-in-an-era-of-inefficiency-in-recruiting
Assessment How to Assess If a Candidate Is Actually Motivated to Do a Great Job https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/how-untested-assumptions-can-undercut-hiring
Culture of Recruiting Is It Time We Required a License to Hire? https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/require-license-to-hire
Culture of Recruiting Use the Hiring Manager Maturity Model to Build a Culture of Recruiting https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/hiring-manager-maturity-model
Metrics The Most Important Recruiting Metric You’ve Never Heard Of: Time to Alignment https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/most-important-recruiting-metric-you-never-heard-of-time-to-alignment
Quality of Hire We Need Speed to Get Quality: Why Now Is Not the Time to Slow Your Hiring Process https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/we-need-speed-to-get-quality
Recruiting Strategy Why It’s Time to End the ‘Ideal Target Candidate Profile’ https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/time-to-end-ideal-target-candidate-profile
Recruiting Strategy Breaking Down Silos: Why Companies Are Taking a More Holistic Approach to Talent Acquisition Leadership https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/breaking-down-silos
Recruiting Strategy Change Is Hard. Will AI Make It Easier in TA? https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/change-is-hard-will-ai-make-it-easier-in-ta
Recruiting Strategy If You’re Looking to Transform TA at Your Company, You Need These 2 Things https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/transforming-ta-at-your-company
Recruiting Strategy What Kind of Taxes Are You Paying in Talent Acquisition? https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/talent-acquisition-taxes
Recruiting Strategy Ready, Fire, Aim? Why Great TA Teams Pause to Aim First https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/ready-fire-aim-why-great-ta-teams-pause-to-aim-first
Recruiting Strategy Recruiting Toolbox’s John Vlastelica on Leading Holistically in a World of HR Silos https://blog.recruitingtoolbox.com/blog/recruiting-toolboxs-john-vlastelica-leading-in-talent-acquisition
Talent Advisor 4 Steps for Influencing Hiring Managers (and Becoming an Indispensable Advisor) https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/steps-for-influencing-hiring-managers-and-becoming-an-indispensable-advisor
Talent Advisor Stop Doing These 3 Things If You Want to Be Seen as a Talent Advisor by Hiring Managers https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/be-seen-as-talent-advisor-by-hiring-managers
Talent Advisor Why Curiosity Might Be the Most Important Skill for Recruiters https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/why-curiosity-is-most-important-skill-for-recruiters
Talent Advisor 9 Ways to Become a Strategic Talent Advisor to Your Business, According to John Vlastelica https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-connect/become-strategic-talent-advisor-to-your-business
Talent Advisor How to Be a Talent Advisor https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/how-to-be-a-talent-advisor
Talent Advisor How Recruiting Has Changed in the Past 20 Years, According to 5 Talent Leaders https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/how-recruiting-has-changed-in-past-20-years
Talent Advisor 5 Signals That You’re Operating as a Talent Advisor https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-strategy/talent-advisor-signals
Talent Advisor Becoming a Talent Advisor: 25 Free Resources to Get Started in 2025 https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/becoming-talent-advisor-free-resources-to-get-started
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Why Most Hiring Manager Training Sucks, Fails, and Makes Us Look Bad

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